Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Canelo-Martinez, Cotto-Trinidad, GGG-Norris

[Shadoww702]

I think Canelo for being only 5' 7 1/2" Tall and starting out at Super LW (139 lbs against Gonzalez) to becoming a MW and hanging with the baddest MW in YEARS for 12 rounds is pretty impressive!

[wrecksracer]

"Before Jones and Hopkins jumped from 160 to 175 **** Tiger did it in the 60s"...what about Thomas Hearns and Reggie Johnson?

As a huge Hitman fan, I applaud your post. Hearns won the LHW title twice. Once from Hall of Famer Virgil Hill. Manny Steward said Hearns could have beaten Roy Jones. Hmmmm. I don't know about that lol.

[wrecksracer]

[QUOTE=Shadoww702;18134639]Before my time! Were those guys naturally big at MW?? I mean now days we see guys fight 15-20 lbs lower than what they hydrate back up to at. I mean Jacobs is HUGE for a MW. I could see him EASILY jumping to LHW.

Spence just fought Brook who fought GGG.

Hearns was a giant at Welterweight. He towered over Hagler at MW. If Manny Steward could have taught Hearns how to fight in the style that he taught Lennox Lewis and Vlad Klitschko, He wouldn't have ever lost. He just couldn't help but get drawn into a firefight.

[Shadoww702]

[QUOTE=wrecksracer;18134786]

Before my time! Were those guys naturally big at MW?? I mean now days we see guys fight 15-20 lbs lower than what they hydrate back up to at. I mean Jacobs is HUGE for a MW. I could see him EASILY jumping to LHW.

Spence just fought Brook who fought GGG.

Hearns was a giant at Welterweight. He towered over Hagler at MW. If Manny Steward could have taught Hearns how to fight in the style that he taught Lennox Lewis and Vlad Klitschko, He wouldn't have ever lost. He just couldn't help but get drawn into a firefight.

I always thought Manny would of been good for Khan. Tought him to protect his chin like he did for a lot of his more chinnier boxers.

[Slickster44]

I just wanna add to the first guys question about the refs not judging fights anymore, is because of corruption. You see it all the time still, where one of the judges is clearly paid off but are overruled by the judges who are legit scoring the fight. It's a lot easier to pay one guy off to give the decision to someone who doesn't deserve it.